April 10
People born on this day are Aries.
- 1970
Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
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Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
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Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
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Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland, killing 108 people.
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Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 42 people.
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Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands is elected to Westminster as the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He died twenty-six days later.
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Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy, killing 140.
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A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola, the first to be documented by satellites.
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President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
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Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries.
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The Paravur temple accident, in which a devastating fire caused by the explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu kills more than one hundred people out of the thousands gathered for the seventh day of Bhadrakali worship.
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A mass shooting occurs at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, that leaves five victims dead and eight wounded.
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2004Ismaël Gharbi, French-Spanish footballer
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2004Savinho, Brazilian footballer
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2000Fidias Panayiotou, Cypriot internet celebrity and politician
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1997Claire Wineland, American activist and author (died 2018)
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1996Andreas Christensen, Danish footballer
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1994Siobhan Hunter, Scottish footballer
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1992Jack Buchanan, Australian rugby league player
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1992Chaz Mostert, Australian racing driver
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1992Daisy Ridley, English actress
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1990Ben Amos, English footballer
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1990Alex Pettyfer, English actor
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1989Charlie Culberson, American baseball player
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